Support Time Recovery Worker | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust

We are looking for aSupport Time Recovery Workerto join our Community Mental Health Team, covering the Swale area. You will work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users working across boundaries of care, organisation and role. You will provide support and give time to the allocated group of service users in order to promote recovery and support them in their community environment, and provide support to service users to identify their needs and assist clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans. You will have the individual service users needs at the forefront at all times, working to the recovery model to support the service user to work towards their identified goals, using the agreed values and skills to underpin day to day work. The role will give you the opportunity to be actively involved in the delivery of psychologically informed interventions with the support and guidance of a Psychologist or Occupational Therapist.

• Work as part of a team that provides secondary mental health services, focusing on the direct needs of service users, working across shared pathways in Mental Health Together PLUS.
• Provide support and give time to an allocated group of service users in order to promote their recovery and maintain them in their community environment, helping them to build their own support network.
• Support service users to identify their needs and to assist clinicians to plan, implement and evaluate individuals care plans.
• Have the individual service user's needs at the forefront at all times and support the service user to work towards their identified goals.
• Use agreed values and skills to underpin day-to-day work.
• Be actively involved in the delivery of psychology informed interventions.
  
  The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)., Disability Confident
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We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year. Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident. Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.